Underserved communities are not benefiting as much as others from the digitization of healthcare, but initiatives are in place to spread health IT and mobile health tools have the potential to bring previously uninitiated individuals into the healthcare system, according to panelists at the 4th annual mHealth World Congress.
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Mobile devices offer providers the opportunity to keep patient health information in their pockets at all times, but organizations should expect challenges if they decide on mobile deployment.
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What follows are some controversial remarks from last week’s 4th annual World Congress Leadership Summit on mHealth in Boston, where I represented MobiHealthNews as a panel moderator.
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Texting is gaining traction in healthcare. While much of the buzz at the 4th annual mHeatlh World Congress focused on the potential of smartphone applications to engage patients, two presentations told how public health initiatives are having success with the slightly older technology.
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The Joslin Diabetes Center in Boston has been able to demonstrably improve patient outcomes with its diabetes management model, but with a finite set of resources, how can the center move beyond the approximately 250,000 patients that it and its more than 40 affiliates currently treat?
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Disclaiming that these ideas may not be “sexy”, William Morris, Vice Chairman of Clinical Informatics at the Cleveland Clinic, said that transitioning to mobile technology will require organizations develop an overall strategy, maintain governance, as well as manage the process.
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To tap into the potential of social media for advancing health, providers and developers need to go where the people are and must change their thinking to a person-centered model of engagement.
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The growth in smart phone adoption and a shift to a mobile, social media based model of consumer engagement means rethinking how and when patient engagement can occur, according to a panel discussion on July 26 at the 4th Annual mHealth World Congress.
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Successful mHealth innovation projects start with an idea to enhance patient care, move from idea to development with clinician assistance and end with a practical tool that makes clinicians’ jobs easier.
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This spring the city of Charlotte challenged its employees to log their workouts on a website that tallied points for each department. Trash talk flew over e-mail and spilled into the hallways of City Hall. If Human Resources was in the lead, “Budget would come back with a reply-all, saying ‘We’ll walk at lunch,’?” recalls Christina Fath, the city’s wellness administrator. A total of 469 municipal employees took part in the six-week challenge—nearly double the number of participants in years past. This year’s group logged 8,800 hours of exercise—equal to almost half an hour per employee per day.
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People are not comfortable with change. While we love to talk about innovation, the challenge of budgets, time and technology often scares us. If you plan for a conservative corporation, you might have to make a case for your ideas to skeptical stakeholders.
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